Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mildly - boats in which the crews would be compelled to row. Now, unless new boats are secured this spring a race next June is not likely to occur. The boat club, we are informed, has not many thousand dollars in its treasury, in fact, is barely free from debt and that is all. Therefore to buy boats is all out of the question. Of course Harvard understands how much benefit she receives from training received at Exeter in the different branches of athletics. A majority of the Exeter graduates enter Harvard, thus whatever proficiency is acquired while at Exeter...
...England's forthcoming Royal College of Music, Mme. Jenny Lind has offered unconditionally to teach a number of free pupils, placing at the manager's disposal several hours per day which she is willing to devote to the task...
...bucket struck the bottom of the shaft with a great crash that re-echoed through the mine, I made Elsie clasp her arms around my neck. Then I tried to go up the rope hand over hand, until I should be able to wind it around me, and thus free my arms from the terrible strain; but I found that with Elsie hanging around my neck, I could not do it. There was nothing left, then, but to try to hold on by the rope until we should reach...
...various school journals, the Willistonian is the most readable weekly, the Exonian being vapid, and conveying the idea that it consists chiefly of advertisements. The Notre Dame Scholastic is, on the whole, interesting, though peculiar, and gives the impression that it is not entirely free from censorship. Good taste would seem to us to suggest the omission of brevities that refer to peculiarly sacred subjects, unless the paper aims to be a religious weekly, in which case other of the matter it contains is particularly out of place. We would also suggest that less space be devoted to advertising their...
...monetary history during the Bank of England restriction, discussing the currency question as operating at that time, and also one giving a sketch of the tariff legislation of England, showing the process by which, under Gladstone's managing, England passed from a tariff to a free trade regime. This lecture will be of use in comparing the legislation of England and that of our country on the same subject...